{"id":6145,"date":"2014-05-06T15:21:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T22:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/05\/06\/downtown-succulent-planter\/"},"modified":"2014-05-06T15:21:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T22:21:20","slug":"downtown-succulent-planter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/05\/06\/downtown-succulent-planter\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Succulent Planter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/iceplant.jpg' title='Iceplant Flower'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/iceplant.jpg' alt='Iceplant Flower' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We went downtown today to shop for Mother\u2019s day gifts. Just outside of the shopping plaza, there was a planter with several varieties of succulents growing. In addition to the usual desert succulents, there was a covering of iceplant on the floor of the planter. I took this shot of one of the iceplant flowers. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>We usually don\u2019t see iceplant in the desert since the cottontails, jack rabbits, squirrels and javelina would find this spineless succulent a tasty snack. This planter probably gets avoided by the desert wildlife since it is in the heart of the downtown tourist area and on a moderately busy US highway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went downtown today to shop for Mother\u2019s day gifts. Just outside of the shopping plaza, there was a planter with several varieties of succulents growing.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,47,72,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-flowers","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}